Just want to pass along an odd little quirk in how Mathematica handles dates and
times in headers for printing. If you put
Cell[ TextData[ {ValueBox[ "Date"]}, ", ",
{ValueBox[ "Time"]}],"Header"]
in one of the header fields, the date and time will be printed in the
corresponding header of the printed page in the form
10/3/01, 10:51:04
While sorting through some printed notebooks, I just noticed that if you
print a notebook having say a dozen pages, the seconds digit in the
printed header typically advances by a digit or two between each page,
so that the header is slightly different on most of the successive
pages.
(Haven't printed any notebooks long enough to see if the minute or hour
digits -- or even the date digits? -- will advance similarly.)
(Example was done using Mathematica 4.1 on Mac PG G3, OS 8.6, hp LaserJet 6MP.)
I have no valid reason to complain about this -- no obvious situations
where having a different date of record on different pages would cause a
problem (though I'd bet there could be some far-out situation where it
could matter).
However, I guess my mental image from mainframe days is that a Print
command generates a "print job", which is sent to the printer as a batch
or a single print file -- in fact, isn't that what happens with most
printers? -- and it would seem intuitive that the date and time should
be somehow associated with the "job", rather than with each individual
page.
(And I just noticed an additional quirk in this example: How come
there's a prepended zero for single-digit days, but not for single-digit
months? Nits, nits.)